Monitoring

A Monitoring task compares the current state of Source to the state recorded during the previous run. It detects:

• Files that have been added to Source
• Files that have been changed in Source (timestamp or size)
• Files that have been deleted from Source

The Monitoring task type has no additional properties of its own. Its behaviour is defined entirely by the Source configuration (which source to monitor and which files to include) and by the On Completion steps that follow it.

On Completion

After the monitoring step completes, On Completion steps run based on the configured condition. Four conditions are available:

Always

The action runs after every monitoring step, regardless of the outcome.

All previous steps successful

The action runs only if the monitoring step completed without errors.

Any previous step produced an error

The action runs only if the monitoring step encountered an error.

This condition requires the task's Action on error setting (in Configuration → Error Handling) to be set to Ignore and continue. If the task is set to stop or deactivate on error, this condition's action will never start.

No files were processed

The action runs only if the monitoring step found no files matching the task's scope (i.e. no new, changed, or deleted files were detected).